You probably mean 9 cylinder radials but there were 9 cylinder rotaries as well.

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK AT A DOUGHNUT?? I thought Commissioner Reagan had this all sorted out!!

Okay, well, there’s a lever by your left thigh, if you pull up on that one the helicopter goes up. There’s a stick in front of you that is connected to nothing at all.

You can dream hahaha. They’re required to know the answers to the questions. At least half of the world’s airline pilots have just about dick all understanding of the actual WHY and HOW something works. Shit, grab your garden variety F/O and ask them to explain how a resettable circuit breaker works. Ask AF447's crew…

Hah, seat pitch is way too generous!

Pilots and aerodynamics? We once had a retired high time military type complain about a rolling tendency on the aircraft he was flying and he told us to “just rig one of the ailerons down a bit”.

3, 6, 9, and 12 are magic cylinder numbers and each sounds as good as the other.

25 years of long distance aeronautical radio use, I can make out about a third of what he says. Give me 2 or 3 hours of listening I reckon I could get practically everything. Certainly shit audio for an effort that serious.

Yep. a cop friend, a good friend, told me that he felt he had to support and help a fellow officer who had drove drunk and killed some poor bastard sitting on a motorcycle stopped for a red. I said, “Are you fucking kidding?”. He said, “No.”. Good bye friend, you are fucked up.

The sooner al kings and queens are dead the better. Mind you, who then would a lot of us practically hairless apes have to idolize?

I imagine that it will be gradual organ failure from the effects of advanced extremely comfortable living age.

I believe this might be the first piece of sound logic and advice that has issued from your writing hand, David.

These are goddamned delicious. 

I adore my wife and I love my dogs. My cars and motorcycles I’m fond of but you bring the right money and you can have any one of them you please. Love a car? That’s just weird.

I’d do her but it’d have to be from behind, I’d need a laptop on her back streaming high quality porn, and she definitely couldn’t utter a single word.

Well at least Tesla’s laughable finishing won’t raise many eyebrows in China.

Misha,

When I was a kid (a long time ago) I drew up a system that used 2 extremely lightweight wheels ahead of the front wheels to command hydraulic actuators to move the car’s wheels to deal with road irregularities with speed input determining the response time. Some military aircraft used a similar idea to deal with low…

Well funnily enough my superhuman reflexes DID save me every damned time things went awry. That still doesn’t change the fact that I was a complete and utter speeding scofflaw asshole.

You ain’t going to rebuild the engine in this one Davey. Take my word for it.